Landing at Low Tide (1896)

Directed by

Birt Acres

Genre

silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman getting off a boat at low tide loses her balance and falls into the water. The brief scene is filmed in one shot with a fixed camera.

lightheartedcomedicshortplayfulsilentold-timeysimpleobservational

What happens

Landing at Low Tide is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent comedy film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a lady falling into the water as she is helped from a small boat. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at Hull Fair by Midlands photographer George Williams, donated to the National Fairground Archive was identified as being from this film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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